Max Boot: “We’re all neocons now.” One is left speechless. Is the idea that a Straussian divination of the speeches of Hassan al-Banna shows his secret purpose to have been to promulgate the wit and wisdom of Partisan Review?

The bizarre irony of Obama’s global multiculturalism is that it has had the effect of aligning America with regimes and against peoples. This was the case with our response to the Iranian rebellion in 2009, and it was the case with our response to the Egyptian opposition until a few hours ago. The striking thing about Barack Obama’s “extended hand” is how utterly irrelevant it is to the epochal events in Egypt, and Tunisia, and Iran, and elsewhere.

Apparently, the United States had never once been engaged in propping up an unpopular autocrat against the wishes of his subjects before January 20, 2009. The very man who famously boasted of his magazine with respect to pro-Israel orthodoxy in American liberal opinion that “we’re the cops”, blames Obama for the consequences of the disastrous American policies of generations which he takes such pride in his large role in enforcing uncritical allegiance to.

This development is highly significant in itself. Amazingly, Marty Peretz ran off to find redemption exactly in the nick of time, leaving Leon completely high and dry among those who actually care about Israel in facing the Egyptian uprising. For one can only conclude that the Israel Lobby is imploding when even the neocons can’t be counted on to try and save the Camp David regime, instead putting to undying shame Condoleezza Rice’s infamous pronouncement of the birth pangs of a new Middle East.

To be sure, one can yet find the expected ominous foreboding against the Muslim Brotherhood – Thomas Joscelyn of the Friends of Democracy Foundation for the Defense of Democracies leads the pack, with Jeffrey Goldberg also reliably in tow. But while it was one thing for the neocons to rush headlong into their “abandonment of democracy” line during the Iran uprising, when it was so clearly cynical, it is beyond shocking to see the degree to which they have started breaking out into The Internationale with no regard at all for the implications for Israel.

Yet the rush to convince themselves and the world that all is well, and this is all the fire in the minds of men proclaimed by George W. Bush, is the most stunning proof one could hope for of this surprising truth about the neocons. One could simply reduce it to delusions arising from the shock that they have finally reaped what they have sown, but I believe there is a more abiding pathology at work.

I have written elsewhere of the Jewish self-hate at the heart of neoconservatism. But its actually worse than that, for at the end of the day what we’re dealing with here is a simple case of liberal white guilt gone off the rails. That is to say, like the white liberal pathologically determined to deny how he or she really feels about the “people of color”, the neocons are pathologically determined, in a remarkable homage to their Trotskyist roots, to insist that they remain true internationalists and deny that they share with Marty Peretz and the more unreconstructed Zionists any contempt for the brown people. So what else is to be expected when the uprising of scary brown people to end all uprisings of the same is shaking the world?

Adam, Jews are Caucasians? I thought Jews were Semites, hence the word antisemitism. If Jews are in fact Caucasians, then antisemitism is a religious prejudice and not a racial one. This what makes anti-Israel prejudice so dangerous. Israelis can stand in for Europeans in Left’s self blame the West first game. However, the Israelis are mainly Jews and hence non-Whites and make convenient targets for racism at the same time. This is why Lefty Israel haters could participate in Gaza incursion protests on European capitals with “Jews To The Gas” signs. Israel is going precisely nowhere because it remains a military superpower. My hope is that Israel can maintain peace with its neighbors without the necessity of another disastrous war for the Arabs. It will likely be necessary for all Christians to leave Egypt as they have left the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Syria, and are now leaving Lebanon. To remain in the Middle East at all Christians will need to move to territory now controlled by Israel. Still the goals of Jihadists are as distant as they were after the Battle of Tours.